PBS Star Ken Burns: DeSantis Is Like Nazis & Soviets on College Bill
"Renowned” PBS filmmaker Ken Burns appeared on Tuesday’s CNN This Morning to rain fire on Gov. Ron DeSantis over a bill in the Florida legislature to mandate some boundaries on how taxpayer-funded universities teach American history. In the fevered brain of this PBS star, DeSantis is somehow comparable to both the Nazis and the Soviets. CNN loved this, and didn’t blink at this blatant…
PBS: CPAC Now a Hotbed of ‘White Grievance Politics’ and ‘Anti-LGBTQ’
PBS NewsHour anchor Amna Nawaz introduced an unfriendly segment on the Conservative Political Action Conference's (CPAC) annual gathering on the Potomac. Laura Barron-Lopez’s solemnly intoned field report Friday evening was interspersed with her own opinions about the “white grievance politics” and “false belief” about teaching Critical Race Theory on display.
PBS Barely Lets Republican Speak on 'Gender-Affirming Care' for Kids
PBS NewsHour aired an 11-minute segment under the headline “Parents concerned as new state laws restrict rights of transgender children.” There were ten minutes of leftist advocacy, and 48 seconds of Republican rebuttal. Their "expert" compares Republican proposals to "genocide."
NYT Ignores Biden Blame for Migrant Child Labor, PBS Even Praises Him!
A New York Times front-page expose Sunday tore the lid off the scandal of underage migrant workers being used as illegal child labor: “Alone and Exploited, Migrant Children Work Brutal Jobs Across the U.S..” The online headline deck: “Arriving in record numbers, they’re ending up in dangerous jobs that violate child labor laws -- including in factories that make products for well-…
PBS’s Anti-'Monopoly' Screed: ‘Greed’ Is How Capitalism Game Is Played
Not even widely beloved board games are immune from the left’s ruthless politicization of daily life. The newest edition of the Public Broadcasting System series American Experience delves into the history of the famous board game Monopoly in “Ruthless: Monopoly's Secret History.” But not content to relay the sordid history of how Parker Brothers-anointed game “…
Racist Trump, Wise Sharpton: PBS’s Hard-Left Hip-Hop Doc Spews Bad Rap
PBS’s four-part docuseries Fight the Power: How Hip-Hop Changed the World, marking the 50th anniversary of the musical genre, was unapologetically leftist and political. Produced and hosted by rapper Chuck D., the series has featured musicians from Snoop Dogg to Jay Z to Eminem, with appearances by black professors, activists, and journalists, and….racial arsonist Al…
PBS: School Board Debates Over ‘Gender ID’ Increase LGBTQ Suicide Risk
Host Amna Nawaz introduced Monday evening’s PBS News Hour segment: “Teenage girls in the U.S. are experienced record high levels of violence and sadness. That is according to a recent CDC report,” leading into Stephanie Sy’s interview with Sharon Hoover of the National Center for School Mental Health. The discussion really went off the rails when Sy and Hoover managed to link “gender…
The Worst of Yamiche! Alcindor Brings Her Venom to NBC Full-Time
The following are just some of the worst outbursts from Yamiche Alcindor via the NewsBusters archive.
The PBS Guide to Self-Loathing White Wokery in 'Queer Life' Poetry
PBS News Weekend on Sunday featured one of its occasional “Brief but Spectacular” segments, which often smuggle in left-wing perspectives under cover of a slightly wacky (for public broadcasting) presentation. This week’s bit of woke propaganda comes in the guise of a poet of the “queer life,” Adam Falkner. Host John Yang introduced Adam Falkner as “a poet, musician, and educator. He…
Maddow Lashes Out at WV Gov for Taking on Leftist Public Broadcasting
On Monday’s edition of MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, the eponymous host lashed out at West Virginia Governor Jim Justice for daring to use his power as Governor to reform the corrupt leftist public broadcasting system in his state. While many conservatives would prefer it be defunded entirely and be forced to compete in the free market like every other news outlet, Justice…
NewsBusters Podcast: Liberals Are Happy Biden Spurned Fox Interview
Journalists at CNN and NPR expressed happiness that President Biden spurned any Super Bowl interview with Fox News. Days before those "failed negotiations," Biden received a warm and open-ended interview with the liberals at PBS NewsHour. It washis first interview with a journalist since before the midterm elections.
PBS Still Hyperventilates on Gun Violence ‘Epidemic,’ ‘Assault Weapon'
The PBS NewsHour, hypersensitive to threats to “gun safety” measures (their words), sounded unpleasantly surprised on Thursday evening’s edition by a federal appeals court ruling allowing people under domestic violence restraining orders to have guns, based on the Supreme Court’s Bruen decision in June 2022. It’s part of a PBS pattern emphasizing what its journalists benignly…
NBC, NPR Reporters See ‘White Supremacy,’ ‘Food Insecurity’ in Memphis
On PBS’s weekly journalist roundtable show Washington Week, National Public Radio Weekend Edition host Ayesha Rascoe and NBC News’ Ryan Nobles (formerly at CNN) discussed the brutal, fatal attack on Tyre Nichols, expanding from the killing to explore bizarre explanations for the attack by the five black police officers, including “white supremacy,” “food insecurity,” and even…
PBS Gives Softball Interview to Biden, Stumped on Low Poll Numbers
On Wednesday night’s PBS NewsHour, Judy Woodruff followed Biden out on his post-State of the Union road trip to give him a soft-ball interview. During the friendly sit-down, Woodruff couldn’t understand “the disconnect” between what Woodruff described as Biden’s good economy and the polling that shows overwhelmingly that Americans are pessimistic and struggling financially.
